Vyasa Gives Sanjaya The Power To Witness The Battle Through His Mind's Eye : Episode 129

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Recap of Previous Episode :

Karna reels from Bhishma’s humiliation, but Duryodhana vows loyalty and support. Gandhari and Kunti bless only righteousness, not victory. Vidura refuses to join the war. Krishna urges Karna to fight and warns him that Bhishma will not die until Hastinapura is secure, leaving Karna torn between loyalty, honor, and destiny.

Krishna Urges Karna to Choose Destiny

Krishna speaks compassionately to Karna, acknowledging how unbearable it must be for a warrior to remain away from the Kurukshetra battlefield, where every kshatriya yearns to display valor. Since Karna has vowed not to fight while Bhishma lives, Krishna reminds him that the chance to participate may never come.

Krishna urges him to join the Pandavas, his own brothers by birth, and rule Hastinapura with honor. Karna refuses instantly. His loyalty to Duryodhana is absolute; he declares that even if the Pandavas offer him a kingdom, nothing would separate him from his friend.

Vyasa Grants Divine Sight

Meanwhile, Dhritarashtra laments the blindness that prevents him from seeing the war. His charioteer Sanjaya tries to console him. At that moment, Sage Vyasa arrives. Hearing Dhritarashtra’s sorrow, Vyasa offers him vision to witness the war.

Dhritarashtra declines—he has grown accustomed to his blindness, and he cannot bear to witness bloodshed and carnage. Instead, he requests that Vyasa grant the gift of divine sight to Sanjaya, so that Sanjaya may narrate every event of the war to him.

Vyasa blesses Sanjaya with the power to see the battlefield in real time, across distance and space.

Armies Gather on Kurukshetra

Sanjaya begins describing the scenes unfolding on the battlefield. Huge armies gather on both sides, forming vast and fearsome arrays. Conches echo across Kurukshetra, horses rear and trumpet, drums thunder, and the wind carries dust and tension.

Krishna tells Arjuna to raise his Gandiva bow and signal the start of the war.

Arjuna’s Crisis on the Battlefield

But Arjuna stands motionless, pale with sorrow. He sees his grandsire Bhishma, the arms under which he grew from childhood; his guru Drona, who trained him in every art of warfare; his uncle Shalya; and countless cousins and friends facing him as enemies.

His voice trembles — how can he kill those who gave him love, guidance, and care?

All eyes turn toward Krishna and Arjuna in bewilderment. The armies wait impatiently. Tension thickens as the two chariots face each other, unmoving. The war pauses before it even begins.

The moment before the Gita dawns.

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